Judge not, lest ye be judged

from here and here

Who would have guessed that god-bothering fanatics would become a significant surveillance threat? I guess it's not enough for their sky-daddy to pass judgement on people, they want in on the action too.

It's not even the church, just a bunch of busybodies with deep pockets trying to force the church's hand.

Who needs a warrant when you've got a wallet?

from here and here

It's not really a surprise that the FBI tracks people, but it is still worth noting when they admit to having done it and how. I guess I was expecting them to do something more technically sophisticated than simply buying location data from data brokers.

Let's make data brokers broke

from here and here

125 million phones could cover more than a third of the population of the entire United States, and yet I've never even heard of the company Kochava before. If this single unknown company is tracking that many people, just think of how many people are being tracked by all the other unknown data brokers out there. 

How quickly we forget the lessons of Snowden

found on Reddit

Virtually every one of those people who are afraid of microchips in vaccines is carrying a cell phone around with them that tracks their location at all times, even if they turn off location services. To a certain extent that was known about even before Snowden, but the documents he leaked expanded our knowledge about that.

A taste of their own medicine

from here and here (image source)

Now that one of the world's most notorious spy organizations thinks the data collected and sold by Silicon Valley is a national security threat, maybe they'll have a change of heart about all that data they're collecting about ordinary people like you and me.

A bag isn't big enough for this much scum

from here (image source)

Hard to believe all the shit AT&T is trying to pull. Harder still to believe they've managed to get away with it for so long. Hopefully that's coming to an end.

And I'd be concerned about the ones that are

from here (source article)

This kind of location data seems like a stalker gold-mine. You might be inclined to think that things are different for gay male hook-up culture, but gosh it seems to me that group has people after them too.

Tune in next year for the disappointing conclusion

from here

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. By now the date which the phone companies promised to stop selling phone location data has already passed, but after their previous behaviour I'm not inclined to believe it until it's verified by yet another investigation.